Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Academic Anthropology and the MuseumThe museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology so much so that the "social" and the "material" parted

spiritual and religious issues

Including coverage of recent developments

the largest Palaeolithic wood assemblage worldwide

different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification

Susan Sontag

Zhu Xi is known as the "great synthesizer" and rarely appreciated as a thinker in his own right

The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis

The book also considers dominant theological themes present in the texts

and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity

Address health care decisions that will support the patient's right to self-determination until the end of life

and the unmarried

This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality